This document summarizes a presentation about moving towards a paperless classroom. It discusses how using technology and digital tools can help teachers be more efficient and interactive by reducing paper waste and allowing for personalized learning. Some of the digital tools mentioned include tools for presenting, keeping students engaged, encouraging independent study, and aiding assessment. The presentation argues that today's teachers should embrace technology to create a better learning experience for students while saving time and resources by going paperless. It ends by providing contact information for the presenter and resources for finding digital teaching materials.

1. MACMILLAN Moving Towards a Paperless Classroom Making Things Better for You! Patrick Hafenstein Macmillan Teacher Training September 2011

3. Embracing Technology

4. Tools to help you present

5. Tools that put you on the same page

6. Tools that make the classroom interactive

7. Tools that personalise the learning experience

9. MACMILLAN Did you know…? Making Things Better for You! Go Green Go Digital A one year subscription to the New York Times weighs 235kg or equal to cutting down 4 trees. While to print one Sunday edition, 75,000trees are needed.

10. MACMILLAN More Shocking Facts! Making Things Better for You! Match the sentences 41 pounds of junk mail per year. More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. it would prevent the emission of 1.6 million tons of greenhouse gases (the equivalent of taking 280,000 cars off the road). a 12-foot high wall of paper from New York to California. 4th in contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. 12.1 trillion sheets of paper per year one ton of paper every year. paper and paperboard waste 682.5 gallons of oil. The paper industry is ranked… If the U.S could cut office paper use by just 10%... With all the office paper we waste every year we could build… The average American attorney uses… Recycling one ton of paper saves… American consumers receive… US offices create… 40% of the solid mass in landfills is…

11. MACMILLAN Are you guilty of wastingpaper as a teacher? Making Things Better for You! Go Green Go Digital

12. MACMILLAN Is the paperlessclassroom possible? Making Things Better for You! Go Green, Go Digital

13. MACMILLAN Making Things Better for You! Go Green, Go Digital

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15. MACMILLAN Or are you a digital native? Making Things Better for You!

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19. MACMILLAN Today’s Teacher Makes Use of... Making Things Better for You! Technology

20. MACMILLAN Tools to help you present Making Things Better for You!

21. MACMILLAN Tools that bring to life an interactive classroom Making Things Better for You!

22. MACMILLAN Tools that encourage autonomous learning Making Things Better for You!

23. MACMILLAN Tools that personalise theclassroom Making Things Better for You!

24. MACMILLAN Tools that assist in assessment Making Things Better for You!

25. MACMILLAN FAR Less Preparation for YOU! Making Things Better for You!

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